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Sunday, September 29, 2013

I got a 1937 dated Talon order sheet the other day with their lineup of zipper designs.

Some interesting bits from the form:

As discussed in the previous post, the separable bottomed zipper was introduced by Hookless/Talon in 1930. It has a folded metal stop-box to mesh the two ends, flanked by reinforcing grommets. From what I've seen and read, I had assumed that the deco/sunburst style stopbox replaced the grommet style. Jackets with the grommet style regularly go for way more than their "deco" zippered brothers. But then here I get this order form, and the two are shown side by side. So, a grommet zip does not assure an early 1930s date of manufacture.

Style 101 (above): "In Rainbow Colors: with Automatic lock. For sweaters and lightweight coat type garments that come apart completely." You sometimes see this style zipper with a brown painted stop box on WWII flight jackets. I have a ski jacket made in this same timeframe that has a green zipper of this design- green tape, green painted teeth, stop box and pull.